Drift Fleet: IC Inbox

[everydayhero]

[A catch-all for privately contacting Hiro outside of posts on the network.]

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[ishere]

Didn't I just tell you to relax?

[ he's trying to sound stern. ]

[everydayhero]

Dude, you can't just tell me to be calm when you got tied up and hauled off.

[he can when you're the one driving, little man. no space road rage]

[ishere]

It was all just a big understanding. --and Ino's friends are a little insane. But it's fine now, Hiro, all you getting mad is gonna do is result in you crashing the shuttle into an asteroid or something.

[ he pretty much pledged to himself that he'd never let hiro worry about him again. ]

[everydayhero]

[tadashi that's not healthy]

If it's fine, why rush me out there to get you?

[he's learning, look out]

[ishere]

Because I was on a strange ship and the only two people there I knew had just given me the third degree?

[ and because he was totally wigged out, but. ]

[everydayhero]

You bribed me to get me there as fast as possible.

[kinda made it sound urgent there, big brother.]

... ugh. It doesn't even matter anymore, does it?

[ishere]

[ tadashi is... doing his best here. :| ]

What doesn't matter, exactly?

[ his tone is careful. ]

[everydayhero]

I can't do anything about it now.

[look at him, emulating aunt cass. BIG BROTHER GOT HURT WHERE DID I GO WRONG]

[ishere]

-- hey. You came and got me, didn't you? You're doing plenty about it.

[ okay, this time the hand that lands on hiro's head is gentle, not, you know, smacking. ]

[everydayhero]

[which is the only reason it doesn't get swatted off, to be honest. he huffs again, indignantly.]

Whatever... [mumblegrumblepout]

[ishere]

[ he gently scritches the top of his little brother's head, before finally dropping his hand and sighing. ]

... you think I should tell Ino?

[ yes, hiro, you were right: he has it bad. ]

[everydayhero]

... Yeah. You should. If she finds out down the road, she'll be angry at all three of you.

[ishere]

Ugh. Who said that it was your turn to be the wise one? What happened to my bratty, hard-headed baby brother?

[everydayhero]

I'm not the one getting kidnapped and falling all over himself. When I start getting arrested again, you can take over.

[ishere]

[ .... hahaha that gentle hand resting on hiro's head is going to give his hair a solid tug now. ]

You make it sound like it's something that's happened to just you and not the both of us.

[ which is to say: yep he is suspicious as fuck now. ]

[everydayhero]

[URK.]

Tadashi, this is not driving conversation. You're just stressed out.

[ishere]

And the right answer there would've been "no, Tadashi, I've never been arrested here," not that really awful attempt at a deflection.

[ but he lets him go and sighs, leaning back in his seat. ]

We're gonna talk.

[everydayhero]

[SIGHHHH.]

Not like it happens every week.

[ishere]

I take back everything I said about you not being bratty and hard-headed.

[everydayhero]

[good]

You're still worse off than I am right now.

[oh look the bishop! time to enter the blue flashing lights of home]

[ishere]

[ he sits in silence for a moment before letting this drop casually: ]

I'm just saying, it's gonna be hard to get people to take you seriously as a superhero if you spend too much time in the slammer.

[everydayhero]

Yeah, but--

[oh.]

[the ship docks, and hiro just kind of... looks over at tadashi. he doesn't say anything just yet; his reaction might be a little subdued if tadashi is paying attention to that. he knows tadashi knows. any fear on his face isn't from being found out. it's from what might happen otherwise.]

[ishere]

[ yeah, he can definitely tell that hiro's a little subdued there, but he's going to try to push past it. it's okay, little brother: maybe it wasn't when he first heard about it, but it is now, and that's exactly why he waited to mention it. ]

You seriously need to work on that competitive streak you have going with me, you know. I like robotics, suddenly you're a robotics prodigy. I build a nurse bot to help people, you decide to be a superhero... I'm gonna get a complex, squirt.

[everydayhero]

It's not like I set out to just...

[he almost sounds defensive, but it's not quite that. there's conflict in his voice.]

... I just thought it was time for me to use that big brain of mine for something good.

[he gives a little half-smile.]

[ishere]

Hey. There's nothing wrong with thinking big.

[ he reaches to squeeze his shoulder, because he's trying his best to be as reassuring as he can be. ]

... you don't have to apologize to me for being a hero.